CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The men at the center of Ohio’s biggest corruption scandal aren’t just getting their day in court – they’re getting special treatment.

Former FirstEnergy executives Chuck Jones and Mike Dowling, accused of orchestrating one of the most extensive public corruption schemes in Ohio history, have been granted extraordinary privacy protections in their Summit County case. A recent Today in Ohio podcast episode dug into how these defendants are managing to keep massive amounts of evidence sealed from public view in a case that directly affected millions of Ohioans’ electric bills.

“The public that paid the price for their corruption is being shut out of seeing the evidence,” said podcast host Leila Atassi. “I feel like it’s really telling that the judge keeps emphasizing h

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